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The Most User Friendly Fighter Bomber Ever Built
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| March 28, 2006
Posted on 03/28/2006 8:39:34 AM PST by spetznaz
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Mixing a lavatory and a kitchen under such close conditions. Hmmm! Well, I just pray that Russian food is not like Pakistan cuisine (and let me leave it at that).
Also someone needs to tell the folks over at Strategypage that Tandem Seating is not the same as side-to-side seating. Tandem is when one pilot seats behind the other (eg in the F-14, the F-15E, the SU-30MKI), while side-by-side is in planes like the above Platypus and our A-6 Intruder.
Anyways, pretty looking (although a frontal view shows why it is also known as the Platypus).
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posted on
03/28/2006 8:39:39 AM PST
by
spetznaz
To: spetznaz
Hell, if they had extended the fuselage a bit more, they would have had room to do the cossack dance up there.
Where's the bar and the disco lights?
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posted on
03/28/2006 8:41:46 AM PST
by
mkjessup
(The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
To: spetznaz
User friendly, eh? So these puppies run OS X?
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posted on
03/28/2006 8:42:23 AM PST
by
Terpfen
(72-25: The Democrats mounted a failibuster!)
To: Terpfen
Yea, thats why there's only 24 of them :o)
To: RedBloodedAmerican
Hah. They're about 10 million short of Apple, then.
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posted on
03/28/2006 8:47:22 AM PST
by
Terpfen
(72-25: The Democrats mounted a failibuster!)
To: spetznaz
I just got a mental picture of a Russian pilot sitting on the john with a newspaper as a threat alarm goes off in the cockpit. Uh-oh, awkward pants around the ankle shuffle back to his seat.
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posted on
03/28/2006 8:47:32 AM PST
by
Sax
(Ahmagonnadoajihad - His name says it all)
To: Sax
How about during a dogfight, the pilot smells smoke and "we're hit, we're hit", the co-pilot says " nyet, I left the stove on and burned the toast".
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posted on
03/28/2006 8:51:15 AM PST
by
jbwbubba
To: Sax
Now THAT would be a bad moment. Nothing as bad as having such a situation occur while in the john (reminds me of that scene from Jurassic park where the guy in the toilet gets munched up by a T-rex).
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posted on
03/28/2006 8:52:38 AM PST
by
spetznaz
(Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
To: spetznaz
That's a sweet looking bird. I want one. It would look good next to my F22.
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posted on
03/28/2006 8:53:26 AM PST
by
manwiththehands
(Islam is as Islam does. Islam is as Islam allows.)
To: spetznaz
lavatory? I hope that the pilot does not need to make any sharp turns or barrel rolls.
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posted on
03/28/2006 8:54:54 AM PST
by
Holicheese
(Hey whitey, wheres your hat?)
To: Sax
Pilot: "Bullseye, I think I got a problem with my IFF."
EW: "What are you seeing, Eagle One?"
Pilot: "Well, dont tell anyone, but I'm showing a Honey Pot at Angels 30, doing 300 knots, bearing 230 off my nose."
EW: "Eagle One, bracket the Honey Pot at 230, come back with a visual".
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posted on
03/28/2006 8:56:40 AM PST
by
Pukin Dog
(Sans Reproache, so if mere words can anger you, it means you can be controlled with little effort.)
To: spetznaz
Talk about getting caught with your pants down!
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posted on
03/28/2006 8:56:42 AM PST
by
Valin
(Purple Fingers Rule!)
To: spetznaz
Mixing a lavatory and a kitchen under such close conditions. Hmmm! Well, I just pray that Russian food is not like Pakistan cuisine Not a problem as long as one practices the Middle Eastern custom of limiting the right hand for eating......
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posted on
03/28/2006 8:57:35 AM PST
by
llevrok
(Drink your beer damnit !! There are people in Africa sober.)
To: spetznaz
The canopy does not open, as the pilots enter via a hatch near the front landing gear. The cockpit is pressurized for operations under 33,000 feet
Hummm - interesting for a fighter. If they have to eject, does the pilot and seat crash through the canopy? That is rough on the pilot(s).
A bullet penetrating a pressurized cockpit would have interesting results I would suspect.
Must not be planning to get shot at much.
I hope it works out better for them than the 111 did for us.
Beautiful aircraft
Cordially,
GE
Disclaimer: I am not an aeronautical engineer therefor opinions expressed are just that - uneducated opinion.
To: jbwbubba
"Are you requesting a fly by Baruska 31?"
"That is a negative tower, I am just finishing my grill cheese sandwich."
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posted on
03/28/2006 9:05:18 AM PST
by
Holicheese
(Hey whitey, wheres your hat?)
To: manwiththehands
That's a sweet looking bird. I want one. It would look good next to my F22. There you go reminding me of the telly programs I used to see when I was a kid (and I'm sure loooong before that as well). They would talk about flying cars and stuff, and one of them (this Brit program called 'Beyond 2000') made it seem that flying vehicles were just around the next corner.
Well, it is 2006, and my vehicle still has 4 wheels (5 if you include the spare) and is still 100% terrestrial.
I should sue!
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posted on
03/28/2006 9:06:00 AM PST
by
spetznaz
(Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
To: zot
And it even has the kitchen sink. H'mmm a humpback whale appearance
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posted on
03/28/2006 9:07:50 AM PST
by
GreyFriar
((3rd Armored Division -- Spearhead))
To: spetznaz
Marine EA-6Bs have a 4-person crew, a pilot and three Electronic Counter-measures Officers (ECMOs). I saw a female ECMO being interviewed on TV. She was asked, "What is the biggest challenge that you experience with the EA-6B?". Her answer, "Using the relief tube."
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posted on
03/28/2006 9:09:11 AM PST
by
JoeGar
To: spetznaz
I remember that prog. With someone and Tiu Leak
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posted on
03/28/2006 9:12:16 AM PST
by
RolandBurnam
(I WANT SOME PORK RINDS!!!!!)
To: GreyFriar
"And it even has the kitchen sink."Useful for when nothing else works, as in "throwing everything at them including the kitchen sink".
It's like having an amplifier that goes to 11 -- when you need that little "extra".
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